Senior Speak
By Tim Danner
<i>QUESTION: WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEAVE FOR THE CLASS OF 2005?</i>KIYOSHI MINO<br>

"Don't write a thesis unless you really love it."

ABRAHAM SCHROEDER<br>"My advice to next year's freshmen: Get to know your advisors and as many other members of the faculty that you can."

ALISON SMITH<br>"Never let academics get in the way of your social life, otherwise you'll regret losing the chance to have some fun before you graduate."

FIONA PATRICIO<br>"Don't drink too much and don't drink too little."

JOSHU HARRIS<br>"Venture beyond campus."

RICH STENBERG<br>"Wear the most offensive t-shirts ever."

NAOMI REECE<br>"Take time off. Leave Amherst sometime after your sophomore year."

<i>QUESTION: WHAT IS THE BEST DORM YOU LIVED IN, AND WHY?</i>

GREGG DINARDO<br>"Probably Stearns. There was always something going on, and the people were awesome, especially everybody on the first floor."

JOHANNA ARENDT<br>"Marsh, because it's the only place I ever lived after freshman year."

ELEANOR GOODMAN<br>"Chapman-there are seven people, two bathrooms, two common spaces, and your own backyard ... and you also get the chance to live next to Professor Richard Cody."

UMIT DHUGA<br>"Tyler, because it's a hike."

DEBBIE BERD<br>"Newport, because we were able to eat free French food every week, and we got to have Florent Masse as a neighbor in our dorm."

TAMMY JEZEK<br>"Milliken, because it's close to the bird sanctuary."

<i>QUESTION: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO TELL EVERYBODY AT YOUR 25 YEAR REUNION?</i>

KATIE FAMOUS<br>"I want to be able to say that I have all of my college loans paid off."

FOREST SHULTZ<br>"I would like to be able to say that, if I had known those pictures would end up on the Internet, I would have never taken them."

PETER BEARDSLEY<br>"I'd like to say that I have retired to my oceanfront estate in Newport, RI, spending my days with fair breezes, wonderful people and beautiful sunsets."

ERIC WUBBELS<br>"I'd love to be a tulip-farmer in Amsterdam."

OWEN FREEMAN-DANIELS<br>"I have six months to live."

RICHARD SLAMA<br>"I died as soon as I graduated from Amherst College."

STEVE POTTER<br>"I live in Kazakhstan."

Issue 25, Submitted 2001-05-23 16:42:40